Wednesday, December 10, 2008

i'm not going to lie . . . it's going to be hard to come up with 10 things this week . . . . it's been a rough one, but here it goes:

1. i turned in my last assignment of the semester this week. all i have left are my two finals, which i feel remarkably calm about. as soon as i turned in my paper i felt this huge sense of relief come over me. fresno state, here i come . . .

2. decorating the christmas tree.

3. sharing poetry out loud with friends.

4. yummy flavored coffee creamers. i put them in my hot chocolate and it's delicious. my favorite right now is creme brulee.

5. almost beating craig in settler of catan.

6. finding out there is a wingstop in merced, which is a lot closer than newport beach.

7. christmas music.

8. space heaters.

9. getting in touch with old friends.

10. i was really sad about walter this week, but that was just circumstantial. even when i was feeling overcome by sadness, i knew that overall i'm really happy with my life, and that gave me so much freedom to just experience my sadness without despairing. so i guess the reassurance of happiness made me happy this week . . . if that makes sense.

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"I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer…" - Rainer Maria Rilke